Phantom Blade Zero Precision Mechanical Gear Locations

These gears were collected on PS5 for Map Master, and the Phantom Blade Zero Phantom Edge guides and region maps cover the materials for the other Edge types. The largest stack here is twelve, in the Mandate Encampment, with a six there too and steady fours through Pangzhen.

Phantom Blade Zero Precision Mechanical Gear Starts Where Mechanical Gear Stops

Precision Mechanical Gear is reported to take Artifice Edges past level 10, after the regular Mechanical Gear for Artifice levels 1 to 10 runs out of road. The two never compete for the same level, so each tier covers its own stretch of an Edge’s climb.

Edge upgrades are reported to skip Solvent, so Precision gear and Remnant Dust are the whole cost of a refined Artifice level. The Remnant Dust each refined Edge level costs is the other half of every refined level, so keep a reserve before a big gear find.

Bastion, Zhuo Bi’s Shield, and the First Phantom Blade Zero Precision Mechanical Gear

Bastion blocks every attack while raised, drains Sha-Chi as it guards, and slams out a shockwave that grows with the damage it absorbs, so a higher level helps every time you guard. It drops from the Zhuo Bi, the Gatekeeper fight in the Village of Lu, the same region as your early Precision gear.

Bastion’s Bolt Ward also works when it isn’t equipped, stopping the crossbow traps in Crimson Forest’s Thieves’ Camp caves, so you can level a different Artifice Edge and still clear those traps. The Bastion and the other Artifice Phantom Edges compare your options before you spend.

Pangzhen’s Steady Fours of Phantom Blade Zero Precision Mechanical Gear

Pangzhen & Mirage Estate gives stacks of four almost everywhere, with a single pair among them, and the Phantom Blade Zero Pangzhen & Mirage Estate map of the city streets and estate places each one. That’s double the village pairs, so this is where an Artifice Edge really starts its refined climb.

Keep your Artifice pick settled before you spend here. Levels under 10 are reported to refund for free, but past that a reset is reported to need a Phantom Reforge Talisman for Artifice resets, so Pangzhen’s gears are close to permanent once they’re in.

The Mandate Encampment’s Twelve-Stack of Phantom Blade Zero Precision Mechanical Gear

A stack of twelve waits in the Mandate Encampment, three times any Pangzhen find, alongside a stack of six. The Phantom Blade Zero Mandate Encampment map inside the camp walls pins both, so plan a late Artifice push around that visit.

If you’re short after Pangzhen, wait for the camp rather than spreading gears thin. One Artifice Edge at a high level does more than two halfway up, and the twelve-stack alone can push a single Edge through a stretch that the village pairs never could.